Lazaretto : how Philadelphia used an unpopular quarantine based on disputed science to accommodate immigrants and prevent epidemics / David S. Barnes.

Por: Barnes, David S [autor]Tipo de material: TextoTextoEditor: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023Descripción: 296 páginas : ilustraciones ; 24 cmTipo de contenido: texto Tipo de medio: sin medio Tipo de portador: volumenISBN: 9781421446448Tema(s): Cuarentena -- Historia | Epidemias -- Historia | Epidemias -- Prevención | Epidemias -- Control | Emigración e inmigración -- Filadelfia (Pensilvania) | Filadelfia (Pensilvania) -- Historia -- Siglo XVIII | Filadelfia (Pensilvania) -- Historia -- Siglo XIXClasificación LoC:RA661 | .B37 2023Clasificación:
Contenidos:
The Nation's Capital at Rock Bottom, 1793-1798 -- Righteousness and Desperation in 1799 -- A New Lazaretto, 1800-1801 -- Exodus (Again) and Compromise, 1802-1803 -- A Regime of Vigilance "to Banish from Among Us Even the Apprehension of Disease" -- "Expedient" Measures and Rioting Redemptioners, 1804 -- A Mischievous Boy -- "This Inhuman Traffic" -- Fencing Off Neighborhoods -- "Detained On Account of Her Hides" -- "Brought to Our Shores by the Cupidity of Others" -- The Care Cure -- "Gross and Criminal Negligence" at the Lazaretto,1853 -- The Darkest Hour -- Quarantine, a Political Minefield -- The Final Days, 1888-1895 -- Afterlives.
Resumen: "This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantine house built in the United States, and one of the largest in the world"-- proporcionada por el editor.
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The Nation's Capital at Rock Bottom, 1793-1798 -- Righteousness and Desperation in 1799 -- A New Lazaretto, 1800-1801 -- Exodus (Again) and Compromise, 1802-1803 -- A Regime of Vigilance "to Banish from Among Us Even the Apprehension of Disease" -- "Expedient" Measures and Rioting Redemptioners, 1804 -- A Mischievous Boy -- "This Inhuman Traffic" -- Fencing Off Neighborhoods -- "Detained On Account of Her Hides" -- "Brought to Our Shores by the Cupidity of Others" -- The Care Cure -- "Gross and Criminal Negligence" at the Lazaretto,1853 -- The Darkest Hour -- Quarantine, a Political Minefield -- The Final Days, 1888-1895 -- Afterlives.

"This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantine house built in the United States, and one of the largest in the world"-- proporcionada por el editor.

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